24 year old Kroos has just a year of his Allianz Arena contract left to run and his demands for parity with top performers like Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben has fallen on deaf ears and moves to secure a big increase on his current £60k a week have amounted to nothing.

Enter Chelsea who are ready to offer Kroos a massive £8.5m a year deal, which works out at around £160k a week, and the chance of a five year contract could well convince the cultured midfielder to put in a transfer request.

One does wonder where Mourinho will look to fit Kroos into a starting eleven that would also need to include new signing Fabregas, central flair player Oscar and presumably a defensively minded option such as Nemanja Matic.